The Create Layer Button: Create Error Region Layer

The Create Layer button in the DRC Menu will create
objects on a given layer corresponding to the error regions in the
current highlighting list. These are the actual error regions with
solid outline highlighting, and not the ``bad'' objects which are also
marked but with a dashed outline. This operation can be useful for
adding the errors to a design file for subsequent processing, and for
other purposes.

The Update Highlighting command button can be used to generate a
highlighting list from an existing DRC error log file.

The user is first prompted for a layer name. Any suitable layer name
can be given. A new layer will be created if the name does not match
an existing name.

The layer will be cleared before the operation starts. Objects
(database polygons and boxes) will be created only in the current
cell.

A second prompt allows the user to provide an integer property value.
If the user supplies a value larger than 0, a property will be applied
to each object with the given number, containing a string with the
text of the corresponding error message. The Show Phys
Properties mode, available from the Main Window sub-menu of the
Attributes Menu and the Attributes menu of sub-windows,
can be used to display these messages. If a positive integer is not
given, no property will be stored with the new objects.